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September 2017

  • A homeless woman sleeps rough in Manchester

    I see housing officers do all they can to refuse homeless applications

  • Houses under construction with scaffolding and boards outside

    Sadiq Khan's housing policy is good for small builders – and Londoners

    Barry Mortimer
  • .<br>Polly Neate New chief exec at Shelter 01-09-2017 Photograph by Martin Godwin

    The Society interview
    Polly Neate: ‘Housing is the bedrock of everything’

  • Newly built homes in a residential estate in England

    Theresa May urged to force councils to build more homes

August 2017

  • Two boys on the Aylesbury Estate where it meets East Street, just off the  Walworth Road, Southwark, London.<br>EYAE8K Two boys on the Aylesbury Estate where it meets East Street, just off the  Walworth Road, Southwark, London.

    If social housing is precious, tenancies should be time-limited

    Josh Crites
  • Vigil by Grenfell tower

    Grenfell must be a turning point in housing – for staff and residents

July 2017

  • Esbjerg municipality has worked with homeless teenagers, to provide them with apartments and support.

    How Denmark has helped its homeless young people

    Our municipality now works with volunteers, housing specialists and social workers to give young homeless people all the support they need

June 2017

  • Dawn Foster

    Foster on Friday
    Anger over Grenfell has spilled out across the country - we want answers

    Dawn Foster
    With every day that passes, the case for a new promise on housing grows: keeping up the pressure will make it even harder to ignore
  • Grenfell Tower

    Legal aid cuts have left residents no way to challenge sub-standard housing

    Liz Davies
    The Grenfell Tower action group had no access to legal aid. Residents at risk in their homes want straightforward, enforceable legal remedies to keep them safe
    • Foster on Friday
      The problem is not tower blocks: it's capitalism and cost-cutting

      Dawn Foster
    • Migrants are wrongly being made homeless. Housing associations must act

      Cedric Boston
    • A quick look at new housing minister Alok Sharma

May 2017

  • Elizabeth Tower

    ‘I want to see compassion’: public service professionals' hopes for the next government

    Police officers, housing advisers, health staff, care workers and charity professionals tell us the election pledges they want from politicians

April 2017

  • Doctor despair

    Public service workers: tell us what you want from the next government

    We want to hear from health staff, care workers, civil servants, local government and charities about the election pledges you want on 8 June

December 2016

  • Dawn Foster

    Foster on Friday
    The housing poverty trap means work doesn't pay

    Dawn Foster
  • NYPD Police Chief Bratton Says Homelessness In City Has Spiked In Last Two Years<br>NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 20: A sign belongling to a homeless man and asking for money sits on the street on November 20, 2015 in New York City. New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton said on Thursday that homelessness in New York City had ‘exploded’ over the past two years. Currently around 58,000 people are in the city’s homeless shelters, a number which is up from the administration of Mayor Michael Bloomberg. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

    Charity leadership
    Back in 1966, I saw a national housing emergency – and helped found Shelter

    Des Wilson

November 2016

  • The Rutherfords and Carmichaels leave the supreme court after their successful legal action.

    The bedroom tax supreme court rulings: what happened and what does it mean?

    There were seven cases in which claimants challenged the controversial benefit cap. We look at the outcome and implications

June 2016

  • Dawn Foster

    Housing needs will be pushed to one side in the confusion over Brexit

    Dawn Foster
    It seems unlikely that the government will meet its target to build one million homes by 2020 with market volatility and a drop in skilled migrants
  • A general view of Matilda House in Wapping which is made up of private tenancy and Housing Association homes

    Housing associations should not fear Charity Commission red tape

    Sarah Atkinson
    Fears about extra costs and bureaucracy as a result of the Housing and Planning Act are understandable, but have been overstated
  • Protesters campaign against the sell off of St Pauls estate

    A new mayor for Bristol is a chance to finally tackle its housing crisis

    Paul Smith
    Six years of austerity, service cuts, redundancies and restructures have held our city back, but we’ve already taken quick action on housing
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